Roofed multipurpose hall built via gotong royong(copypaste)

Roofed multipurpose hall built via gotong royong

July 26, 2015, Sunday Conny Banji, reporters@theborneopost.com

The new hall where the SK Nanga Jagau school community holds its activities.

KANOWIT: The rural school community of SK Nanga Jagau has built a new roofed multipurpose hall for the school on a limited budget via ‘gotong royong’.

Ngemah assemblyman Alexander Vincent said if the project was built on contract basis, it would be costly.

“However they managed to build a proper place for the school assembly and other activities using RM20,000 from my Minor Rural Project allocation,” he said when officiating at the opening of the hall at the school in Sungai Ngemah here on Wednesday.

Alexander who is also Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) Supreme Council member noted the hardship the school community went through to build the hall due to its location.

SK Nanga Jagau is the remotest school in Ngemah state constituency serving 24 longhouses at Nanga Jagau Resettlement Scheme and several other longhouses in the upriver area of Sungai Ngemah.

Alexander said the pupils, parents and teachers of the school should be proud of their effort.

“The hall may not be as beautiful as those in other schools but the structure is standing strong here today because you built it,” he said.

He urged teachers and parents to continue cooperating.
SK Nanga Jagau headmaster Dawie Jamau said it took nine days for parents and teachers to construct the wooden hall which is where pupils and teachers gather for school activities.

Present at the function were assistant Kanowit District Education officer Berita Sabang, Penghulu Barnabas Angkis, Penghulu Ambrose Pengiran Sampai and Penghulu Ijam Tuah.

Alexander also announced RM30,000 to buy plywood and building materials for the hall.

Read more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2015/07/26/roofed-multipurpose-hall-built-via-gotong-royong/#ixzz3h9jCGZPr

My comments:

Exactly!  Do what you can to improve your area in gotong-royong ways and of course ask the representative of your area to pay for all the expenses as he is given RM1million for MRP/Minor Rural Project annually.  If not enough, it is also your right to ask for more allocation.  Don’t wait assly.  Always set the deadline and dateline for any project to improve the infrastructure of your area.  Remember nobody will help you automatically.

You should take the initiative and chart your own course.  Yes, people must stay united if you want a better deal.  Demand to be given the projects that you can do on your own. 

It is time to reject the few favoured companies to monopolise the projects and plunder and exploit at will. 

 

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Every year, we see RM in billions being transferred out of the country for laundering and who can rebuff that Najib and his cronies are not involved in this activity?

Saying that suspending The Edge for 3 months would not tarnish the not so good image of the BN government further is just strumming the instrument indulging in your own song of solace (自弹自唱自爽).

Whether The Edge reported /not, everybody except small children and the ignorant knows how abusive and corrupt UMNO and the BN thug-like leaders are.

Were Najib and his wife not being caught red-handed in the acts with so much unaccountable money in transactions?  Is corruption and collusion not rampant?

Who with the exceptions doesn’t believe that Najib and all those involved in the delivery of the fund allocations partake in the commission in % in Satu Malaysia way.

We all want to know why Najib and the BN leaders just refuse to declare the assets in their possession and cash in their bank accounts to prove themselves being upright and honest.  Why????

Let us help you to discipline yourselves in face of temptation to take an easy access to amass ill-gotten wealth speedily with so many chances to do so.  Suspending The Edge Weekly and Financial Daily no matter how short is a fatal act to take in an attempt to shut up somebody.

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Take actions now2872015

The news of sex-predators mostly from Australia going to the Philippines to exploit the poor illiterate and underaged girls and impregnated them are really shocking.  

One of pregnant under-aged was even sexually exploited by a man as old as 90.  Now what I want to know is how can Acquino, president of the Philippines allow these sex-predators to come to his homeland to commit such a terrible sin. 

How can Abbot, president of Australia keep silent to all these beasty and sinful men to come and go to the Philippines to prey on all these poor underaged girls and impregnated them without any action at all. 

I wonder why Acquito especially has not done anything to deal with these beasty and sinful men mostly from Australia to exploit these poor, illiterate and underaged girls . 

Yes, did Pope Francis know about these sinful and beasty behaviours of the men in human forms but having worse than animal in acts from Australia and elsewhere to enter the Philippines to exploit these helpless, poor, illiterate and underaged girls at will.  What a shame!

What is our United Nations going to deal with helly problems of sex-predators preying on poor, illiterate and underaged girls in the Philippines? 

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What for? 2772015

Suspending the journal, the Edge for three months in the pretext of sedition to suppress and oppress in order to silent the whistle-blowers in the detailed reports of the scandalous 1MDB is self grave-digging.

It is self pit-driven, too.  It means death and shame to flow about like deluge.  The debt of 1MDB piling up speedily fast in a span of 6 years or less is shocking to all minus those.

Is the said branded 1MDB not debt-ridden with so many unaccountable transactions?  The act to suppress and oppress the whistle-blowers only brings negative results/outcome.

It is said in the Chinese language is [弄巧反拙]。It is an idiotic act /assly-minded act in the attempt to create a better outcome from such a scandalous matter.   There is no magic play here.  Face it, deal with it and settle it properly and justly.  That's it!

A wise leader knows suspension only creates more suspicion and outcry.  He should adamantly say, “No!” to any suggestion to suspend the press at all costs.

It is not to be so cheeky that Shabbery Cheek should learn as a man holding such a lofty position but with such a low and mean act to suppress and oppress. 

You only create more grotesque images of the said company and Najib as well as his accomplices.  It is an act that will bring about outcries of foul and contempt.

Hands off the press for your own goodnesses because the suspension of the said journal and Daily only creates widespread flare of rage that does nobody good but wide popularity of the said journal.  

Frankly speaking, I have become wildly excited and interested about this journal and I might subscribe.  If not, I will frequent the website for some glimpses at least.  I believe many people are unaware of this journal/Daily until this highlight /attention of the suspension of the journal.   Isn't an attempt that brings not the desired outcome/弄巧反拙？  Isn't an assly-minded act?

(I still have not learnt how to embed the whole article to be published in Twitter, so I have to tweet one by one within the bound of 140 words each time.)

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Why so poor at English?  2572015

Nowadays, most students are too busy to read widely in the BM or Chinese language, not so say English, which is so alien to them.   Limited English vocabulary and little knowledge of grammar lead them to the “dead avenue”. (死胡同)。

Guess how many students / graduates have the mind-map of the complete picture of English grammar.  In short, how many of them have the complete ideas how the English language works to know how to use the language accurately.  This concerns your language accuracy . 

Guess how many teachers believe that they have to drill each grammatical item in isolation to get them familiar with the forms and functions.  To teach English grammar in contexts is to reinforce the learning of the structures.  To me, it is not the right way to get them to know how the language works holistically.

Reading and listening activities are the input that will help students acquire the language naturally/spontaneously and so they will have the fluency.  The constant exposure will enable them to use the language intuitively. 

Teaching and learning each grammatical item in isolation can ensure there is enough drill of all of the items.  This knowledge of grammar will make students competent and proficient in the course of time.  With a  good grasp of grammar will also enable them to edit their own speech and writing at ease and at will when they have enough vocabulary at their disposal.

So grammar is the foundation.  Please drill each item seriously in isolation and in context to prepare students to explore the language which is so extensive on their own all through their life.  Teachers can’t help much assist them to build up the rich stock of vocabulary.  This they have to do on their own through reading extensively.

To acquire as rich a stock of vocabulary means that they must know how to pronounce every word in sight.  That means they must know Phonics and have the whole view of the vowel and consonant speech sounds at their disposal.  In this way, they can check the speech sounds of any word which they are in doubt.  Knowing the pronunciation means that they can remember the sounds of the words and their forms to keep them in the long term memory.

So, teaching grammar and pronunciation are the must thing to do to prepare students for independent learning all through their life. 

Check how schools in Malaysia take grammar and pronunciation seriously.   How many schools allocate at least one period solely for grammar?   For pronunciation, as long as there are reading aloud of English passages in each period, it is sufficient. 

Always remember the theory of input and output /exposure to acquire a language.  We are only born with the faculty to learn languages but to acquire a language, especially the second language that really require some deliberate efforts to achieve the goals.

Teaching and learning English as a second language successfully means that we have to take all these 4 factors into consideration, ie,

1.  How to inspire students to become interested in the language

2.  Teaching and learning materials must be well-planned/structured to 
     help students  to acquire the knowledge of grammar and 
     pronunciation 

3.  Teachers must be proficient enough.  That means they are 

      well-versed in grammar and pronunciation as well as having a really 
      rich stock of vocabulary.

4.  The examination contents must have the Grammar which should carry 

      as high as 30% to make everyone take it seriously. 

 If you are still in doubt, I recommend you to refer to Singapore, our Bakun dam-sized neighbour, who has a really well-developed/structured English teaching and learning syllabuses for both the primary and secondary schools as far as I know.  

 Or ask around those English tuition schools here in Malaysia, they know best and reap the profit, too to upgrade the language skills of the students.  It is win-win for the English language schools and the students when the ministry of education fails all the way through in implementing English language teaching and learning properly and successfully.

Here I would like to stress how important grammar is:  no matter how bright your ideas are if they are presented with a lot of grammatical mistakes, do you feel comfortable as a reader with the report/ article?  Or if your speech is full of grammatical errors / you speak the variations of English far from the standardised one, be it UK, USA or Australian.  It is not your own created ones based on your non-English mother tongue.